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My impression of this thread:
First poster, “Hey did you hear about Mad Cow Disease going around?”
Second Poster, “What do I care? I’m a helicopter!”[/QUOTE]
Shades of Hofstadter’s Goedel, Escher, Bach, mixed with the theater of the absurd …
Yeah … lots o’H20 and I do use salt (to the horrors of many family members!). I also eat every hour or so – I ‘graze’ like the horses do. Fresh veggies and whole grains. Now and then a MacDonald’s Cheeseburger when I’m on the road and about to pass out at the wheel of my vehicle from lack of food! LOL It does help. Gets bad when I don’t eat/drink for extended periods of time. Oh well … c’est la vie.
As to inheriting BP–often in women it is simply a matter of “when”, not “if”. The most typical “when” being around age 70. So don’t count out the hypertension just yet. I know mine will hit me around then . . . assuming the stress doesn’t get me first.
Well then that gives me another good 10 years or so. Ha! PS … thx.
The Creation Museum and Liberty University–you can google them. Fundamentalist Christianity at its most bizarre and strident, complete with denial of science and a good thrashing of the importance of education. :no: Jesus would roll over in his grave (well, you know what I mean) if He saw the foolishness being perpetrated in His name. :eek:
Oh Godfry – do I HAVE to ??? Now THAT – bizarre and strident fundamentalism – gets my BP up! hahahaha.
Here Kitty, Kitty…
OK. Now lest anyone think that I’ve ‘deserted’ or ‘flown the coop’ … I’m off to roast some fresh beets, carrots, potatoes garnished with coarse salt, mixed pepper, fresh dill and basil – all from our gardens! Mmmmmmmmmm. And a salad of fresh greens, fresh tomatoes, cukes, sweet onions (also from our gardens) and Bragg’s Vinegar with Sunflower oil infused with fresh garlic! How good does it get !!! Not any better, IMO! yes! Life is GOOD!
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Well then that gives me another good 10 years or so. Ha! PS … thx. 
dont count your chickens before they hatch
Creationism IS the calling card of bizarre and strident Christian fundamentalism . . .
Wait, when did this thread turn into an episode of Big Bang Theory?
And which one of you is Sheldon? Leonard? Raj and Walter?
That Hahnemann guy, wasn’t he the one who also stated that coffee is 100% the cause for most disease and illness?
And since when is Vodka tasteless and odorless? I can smell and taste vodka, am I speshul? (wait, don’t answer that)
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Well, ummmm, I disagree in that I understand stress having everything to do with most illnesses and, in particular, high blood pressure (although I do understand that hypertension is also an inherited disease as well).[/QUOTE]
Your understanding of human physiology is extremely limited.
…never mind- I am going to callabus’s for dinner!
I knew there couldn’t be so much Bovine Slurry without SOMETHING good coming from it.
Oh, please.
We can handle thinking.
What many of us have little patience with is a mishmosh of poorly crafted attempts at scientific explanation for a modality that has none to support it.
Oh wow.
Haven’t thought about that book for years.
Read it when I was in high school.
I need to excavate and locate it to read again.
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so, wanted to ask – what about syncope with standing up too fast due to low BP? I’ve been told “there’s 'nothing that can be done. Just have to learn to ‘live with it’.” ??? My BP is ‘high’ when it gets to 120 over 70. ‘Normal’ for me is 90/67 or thereabouts. Contrary to inheriting high BP from both parents and grandparents! ??? Go figure. And yeah – we’re at the cocktail party and you’re the “Doc” of the party …[/QUOTE]
Lots of fluid…the more hydrated the better chance you have of limiting sudden drops. My team also suggests broth or some other salty snack. In your case the extra salt is not harmful
So, would this be Schrodinger’s cat?
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So, would this be Schrodinger’s cat?[/QUOTE]Or maybe one of Pottenger’s.
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…never mind- I am going to callabus’s for dinner!
I knew there couldn’t be so much Bovine Slurry without SOMETHING good coming from it.[/QUOTE]Eat your heart out – it was superb! Accompanied by some Chardonnay? Just right for a mid-summer’s evening.
But, on the other hand – both cats are alive.
Are you sure? Better check the box again.
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Are you sure? Better check the box again. :D[/QUOTE]
My very favorite explanation of Schroedinger’s cat, for the layman. Cecil Adams is to thank for this:
Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
(Not bad, eh? Don’t worry. This part of the verse
Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
Win saw that the theory that Newton’d invented
By Einstein’s discov’ries had been badly dented.
What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, “Don’t panic,
No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
If that’s not confusing, the nuclear dance
Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
No sweat, though–my theory permits us to judge
Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was.”
Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
E’en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we’ve a cat,
And inside a tube we have put that cat at–
Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
(Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got ‘em,
One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
Or atom–whatever–but when it emits,
A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
The cylinder’s sealed. The hour’s passed away. Is
Our pussy still purring–or pushing up daisies?
Now, you’d say the cat either lives or it don’t
But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won’t.
Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough shit.
We may not know much, but one thing’s fo’ sho’:
There’s things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons–you’ll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed–
Which ruins your test. But then if there’s no testing
To see if a particle’s moving or resting
Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
We know probability–certainty, never.’
The effect of this notion? I very much fear
‘Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
“We’ve just flipped a coin and we’ve learned he’s a corpse.”’
So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, “You’re nuts.
God doesn’t play dice with the universe, putz.
I’ll prove it!” he said, and the Lord knows he tried–
In vain–until fin’ly he more or less died.
Win spoke at the funeral: “Listen, dear friends,
Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
Though he doubted my theory, I’ll say of this saint:
Ten-to-one he’s in heaven–but five bucks says he ain’t.”
— Cecil Adams
But what about tunneling???
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